<div dir="ltr">And yet, in the end it is a story of technology taking more human jobs.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 1:27 AM John Grigg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>"It’s sort of like a scarecrow, except that if you happened to run 
into it in the middle of the night—or, heck, even in broad daylight—it 
would probably haunt your dreams (or nightmares) for years to come.
<p>Infrared sensors detect when bears or other living creatures enter 
the area, and in response the robot kicks its scare tactics into action:
 its eyes light up red and it emits a variety of loud sounds, from howls
 to gunshots to human voices. It reportedly can make over <a href="https://interestingengineering.com/japanese-town-sets-monster-wolf-robot-to-keep-bears-away" target="_blank">60 different sounds</a>,
 (at least one of which is truly ear-splitting, as you can hear in the 
video below) and is programmed to mix them up so that bears or other 
predators won’t get used to any one sound and hence stop being scared 
off."</p>

</div><div>Happy Halloween, everyone! <br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://singularityhub.com/2020/10/30/japanese-towns-use-this-robotic-wolf-to-scare-off-bears-and-its-terrifying/" target="_blank">https://singularityhub.com/2020/10/30/japanese-towns-use-this-robotic-wolf-to-scare-off-bears-and-its-terrifying/</a></div></div>
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